Volume of a Combination of Solids

Author:Neha Tyagi & Amit Rastogi
10th CBSE
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Volume of a Combination of Solids: Overview

This topic helps us in finding the volume of solids, which are a combination of basic solids. It mentions that a circle tent consisting of a cylindrical base surmounted by a conical roof is a combination of two or more basic solids.

Important Questions on Volume of a Combination of Solids

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 A building is in the form of a cylinder surmounted by a hemispherical vaulted dome and contains 411921 m3 of air. If the internal diameter of dome is equal to its total height above the floor, find the height of the building in m

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The capacity of a cylindrical vessel with a hemispherical portion raised upward at the bottom as shown in the figure is πr233h-2r.

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A solid ball is exactly fitted inside the cubical box of side a. The volume of the ball is 43πa3.

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Water flows at the rate of 10 m min-1 through a cylindrical pipe 5 mm in diameter. How long would it take to fill a conical vessel whose diameter at the base is 40 cm and depth 24 cm?

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A pen stand made of wood is in the shape of a cuboid with four conical depressions and a cubical depression to hold the pens and pins, respectively. The dimensions of cuboid are 10cm, 5cm and 4cm. The radius of each of the conical depressions is 3cm. Find the volume of the wood in the entire stand.

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The barrel of a fountain pen, cylindrical in shape, is 7 cm long and 5 mm in diameter. A full barrel of ink in the pin is used up on writing 3300 words on an average. How many words can be written in a bottle of ink containing one-fifth of a litre?

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How many cubic centimetres of iron is required to construct an open box whose external dimensions are 36 cm,25 cm and 16.5 cm provided the thickness of the iron is 1.5 cm. If one cubic centimetre of iron weighs 7.5 g, then find the weight of the box. 

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A rocket is in the form of a right circular cylinder closed at the lower end and surmounted by a cone with the same radius as that of the cylinder. The diameter and height of the cylinder are 6 cm and 12 cm, respectively. If the slant height of the conical portion is 5 cm, then find the total surface area and volume of the rocket. use:π=3.14.

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A heap of rice is in the form of a cone of diameter 9m and height 3.5 m. Find the volume of the rice. How much canvas cloth is required to just cover heap?

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A solid right circular cone of height 120 cm and radius 60 cm is placed in a right circular cylinder full of water of height 180 cm such that it touches the bottom. Find the volume of water left in the cylinder, if the radius of the cylinder is equal to the radius to the cone.

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16 glass spheres each of radius 2 cm are packed into a cuboidal box of internal dimensions 16 cm×8 cm×8 cm and then the box is filled with water. Find the volume of water filled in the box.

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An ice-cream cone full of ice - cream having radius 5 cm height 10 cm as shown in figure

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Calculate the volume of ice-cream, provided its 16 part is left unfilled with ice-cream.

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Two solid cones A and B are placed in a  cylindrical tube as shown in the figure. The ratio of their capacities is 2:1. Find the heights and capacity of cones. Also, find the volume of the remaining portion of the cylinder.

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From a solid cube of side 7 cm, a conical cavity of height 7 cm and radius 3 cm is hollowed out. Find the volume of the remaining solid.

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Three metallic solid cubes whose edges are 3 cm, 4 cm and 5 cm are melted and formed into a single cube. Find the edge of the cube so formed.

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 If volumes of two spheres are in the ratio 64:27,  then the ratio of their  surface areas is 

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A medicine-capsule is in the shape of a cylinder of diameter 0.5 cm with two hemispheres stuck to each of its ends. The length of entire capsule is 2 cm. The capacity of the capsule is

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A metallic spherical shell of internal and external diameters 4 cm and 8 cm, respectively is melted and recast into the form a cone of base diameter 8 cm.The height of the cone is

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If a hollow cube of internal edge 22 cm is filled with spherical marbles of diameter 0.5 cm and it is assumed that 18 space of the cube remains unfilled. Then, the number of marbles that the cube can accommodate is